When I add a new song or cd, I put it in my New Unrated playlist, and I go through all these songs multiple times until I know them all. My New Unrated playlist currently has 179 songs in it (I’ve been a bit lazy about listening to the new stuff lately) - we bought some new cds that I have to listen to a few more times before I can rate them and delete them from the playlist. I am familiar with every other song of my 6645 - it’s not like the old songs fall out of your head when you learn new ones.
A buddy of mine was in the used record business, then the used CD business. He is retired now, but over the years I’ve accumulated thousands of LPs, CDs, tapes, etc. Also, 15 GB of recently acquired stuff.
One Enya Cd. And one Gordan Lightfoot Cd because its got the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on it.
I agree. Ultimately, my goal is to have everything digitized for playback out of a slave machine into an external DAC then into my system.
There was no option on the poll for over 6,000 cds but it’s obviously well over 30gig.
My collection is ‘zero’ but I chose 1 gig or less…
I don’t have a single song file on my computer/phone/whatever. I own some CDs I don’t listen to. If I want to hear music while I’m doing chores, I put on Pandora.
I can’t answer this. I have an iPod Nano with 16G that is almost full, but I besides that I still have several hundred CDs that I haven’t downloaded yet.
I’m constantly surprised by the shit I have on my iPod. I’ll hear a song on the radio or tv or whatever and load it into my music collection only to find three copies already there.
If I want to listen to a song online, I hit up YouTube.
Sure, I have a 30 gig collection, but I don’t know what most of it is. It’s currently on a drive that may be failing, and I found I don’t care enough to back it up.
The only place I have time to listen to music on a regular basis nowadays is in my car, on my commute to and from work. Maybe I’ll have internet in the car one day, but not yet.
I personally haven’t set this up, but co workers of mine play pandora from their phones on the commute over the car stereo. They say it works without skipping.
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I have an iPod touch and a streaming service like Apple’s service would be useful to me if our IS department allowed me to connect my iPod touch to the company WiFi network. I have hundreds of gigbaytes of ripped CDs (nothing illegal, not that this matters) at home and I listen to them at work. About every couple of weeks I replace the songs on my iPod touch with new songs to listen to with my headphones at work. Sometimes I feel like I would want to listen to one of the albums I have at home but I can’t do it until I load it on the iPod.
As other people have mentioned, the size of my music folder is not based just on the size of my CD collection, but also on the quality level I chose when I copied the CDs to my hard disk. Nowadays, for copying anything to the computer (CDs, scanned photos, etc) I always use the highest quality possible. I figure that storage devices are constantly getting smaller and increasing in size, and the dollars you save now, you will be more than likely to regret later. I have many photos that I ended up scanning again because 15 or 20 years ago I scanned them in at a low resolution to save space.
ETA: I think that the results of this poll will be biased towards the high end of the spectrum, i.e. people will be more likely to read the thread and vote if they have large music collections on their hard drives.
1 song. Suicide is Painless because it was the first song I thought of when testing out iTunes on my iPhone.